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Cardio: Antidysrhythmic Drugs Flashcards

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How does Atropine increase HR?

What receptors does it act on?

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What are the Class III drugs?

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Give the Clinical Application of Verapamil

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Note: More useful than digoxin for rate control in atrial fibrillation due to the Ca+2 channel blockade in AV node persisting during sympathetic stimulation.

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Give the PKs and ADRs for Propranolol

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What is the general mechanism of Class Ib drugs?

What happens to phase 3, APD, and QT?

What conditions are they useful in treating?

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What are the Class IV Agents?

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What is the Class II Agent?

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Propranolol

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What are the Class Ia Agents?

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Describe the PKs of Procainamide

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What is Ventricular Re-entry, and what kind of Disorders of Impulse is it?

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Disorder of Impulse Conduction

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What are the ADRs Quinidine?

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Label each action potential as either

  • Atrium
  • Ventricle
  • SA node
  • AV Node
  • Purkinje Fibers
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What are the Pharmacokinetics for Digoxin?

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Give each of the following the title as

  • ST segment
  • P Wave
  • QT Interval
  • QRS Complex
  • T Wave
  • PR Interval
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What are the General mechanisms for Class II drugs?

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Concerning AV Nodal Blocks, describe the difference in 1st, 2nd and third degree. What kind of Disorders of Impulse are they?

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  • What is the mechanism for Lidocaine?
  • What is Lidocaine used to treat?
  • What does Lidocaine do to the ERP and APD?
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Concerning Class Ic drugs

  • What happens to QRS, APD, QT, and PR?
  • What happens to phase 0?
  • What is special about the mechanism kinetics?
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What are the ADRs for Amiodarone?

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What is the general mechanism for all Class I Antidysrhythmic drugs?

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Block voltage-sensitive Na+ channels

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Concerning Quinidine

  • What Clinical Applications does it have?
  • What does it do to the QRS and QT?
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What are the main Ventricular (alliterations at the ventricle muscle mass) Dysrhythmias?

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What are the ADRs for Verapamil?

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What does the Cardiac Action Potential look like for the Atria, Purkinje fibers, and Ventricles?

What about the SA and AV nodes?

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What are the PKs of Lidocaine?
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Describe the general mechanism of Verapamil * What does it do to HR, SA automaticity, PR, AV conduction, CO, and ventricular contractility?
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Describe what Flecainide does to cardiac conduction, and the Clinical Applications for it
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Give the PKs for Verapamil
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What are the three major Consequences of Dysrhythmia?
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* What is the general mechanism for Class Ia Antidysrhythmic drugs? * What do they do phase 0? phase 2? phase 3? How? * What happens to QRS and QT?
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What are the ADRs for Digoxin?
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Concerning the Causative Mechanisms for Dysrhythmia Generation, describe Disorders of Impulse Formation.
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What are the ADRs of Procainamide?
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Concerning Ibutilide * What is different about its mechanism compared to other drugs of the same class? * What effect does it have on MAP, HR, QRS, and PR? * What is notable about its PKs?
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What is Sotalol used to treat and channel does it effect that is unique among other NS Beta Blockers?
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Concerning Class III Agents * Give the general mechanism * What they do to phase 3 and QT * What they are generally useful for
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How do you manage Sinus Tachycardia?
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What kind of Disorders of Impulse are DADs or Delayed After- Depolarizations?
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What are the Clinical Applications for Digoxin? * What does it do to Na+/K+-ATPase? * What happens to ERP? * What happens to P-wave depolarizations?
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What are the main Supraventricular (alliterations at or above the level of the AV NODE) Dysrhythmias?
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Give the general effects and Clinical Applications for Propranolol
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What condition is Diltiazem useful for?
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Give the PKs for Amiodarone
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Concerning Amiodarone * What is the general mechanism * What does it do to ERP and APD * What the Clinical Applications
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Concerning Class IV Agents * Give the general mechanism * What it does to the SA Node and AV Node, and ventricular contractility
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What are the Class 5 drugs?
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What is Digoxin?
Class 5 Antidysrhythmic Cardiac Glycoside
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Compare Verapamil and digoxin for use in controlling A-Fib.

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